Vericept Corporation today announced Vericept Desktop 360-degree, providing content visibility and control to enterprise desktops. With the recent proliferation of laptop theft, intellectual property theft and identity theft, now more than ever, organizations must have visibility and control into where critical documents and customer data resides at all times on their corporate network and must protect this data from being accessed, printed, copied or downloaded without proper authorization.

"With the increased popularity and convenience of utilizing USB drives and iPods(R) as storage devices in addition to laptops, it is no longer sufficient to simply protect data-in-motion over the network," said Dave Parkinson, President and CEO of Vericept. "It is equally critically important to protect stored data as evidenced by the large increase in insider breaches relating to mobile devices. The need for this technology has further been validated by the numerous requests we have received from customers and prospects alike. For this reason, we are proud to once again be first to market with an enterprise-class Desktop solution that fully integrates with Vericept Content 360-degree, and reaffirms both our technology and market leadership."

Part of the Vericept 360-degree Risk Management Platform, Vericept Desktop 360-degree brings 360-degree visibility and control capability to content residing on desktops, laptops and servers without impeding the flow of business. Vericept Desktop 360-degree provides continual content protection either while connected to the network or disconnected on the nomadic fringe and enables organizations to:

* Discover where confidential documents reside

* Lockdown content from information leakage

* Control data loss on desktops, laptops and servers

* Control use of removable drives and media such as an iPod(R), USB

drive, CD, floppy and disk

* Control access, downloading, printing, copying and moving of data by

unauthorized users

* Protect laptop content even when disconnected

"The content monitoring and filtering space is growing rapidly and as enterprises look to address compliance, defense of intellectual property and other forms of data leakage, it will be imperative to complement network based monitoring and control with a desktop client that can offer similar functionality," said Paul Proctor, Research Vice President for Gartner. "The need to define, project and enforce content protection policies comprehensively across an organization requires this type of architecture."

Based on Vericept's Intelligent Content Control Engine(TM), Desktop 360-degree utilizes a suite of content detection technologies to provide complete visibility and control over all confidential documents and records stored on the network in order to prevent security breaches, compliance violations and violations of corporate governance policies resulting from malicious or inadvertent insider activity.

Desktop 360-degree takes the power behind Vericept Content 360-degree to the desktop with the following functionality:

Endpoint Visibility

Utilizing the Vericept Risk Categories and other content detection technologies to monitor and protect all sensitive customer data and business documents. Desktop 360-degree also tracks all content, login, system, drive and user activity in real-time. Desktop 360-degree Risk Dashboards provide instant visibility into violations and desktop activity and allows reviewers to take immediate action on suspicious activity.

Content Control

Restrict access to sensitive data anytime and anywhere. Content controls can prevent documents from being accessed, saved, downloaded, printed, copied or saved. Desktop 360-degree controls content continuously regardless of whether or not the user is connected to the network. Trigger mechanisms can also alert to potential lost or stolen laptops.

User Alerts & Desktop Self-Compliance(TM)

Train users on corporate policy at the time of the event. User alerts remind users of content restrictions and policies while Desktop Self-Compliance informs the user of the policy violation and allows the user to decide whether or not to continue with the action.

Combining the Power of Network and Desktop Content Control

The Vericept 360-degree Risk Management Platform is the only content monitoring and filtering solution that enables corporations and organizations to gain complete visibility into all insider risk and control outbound content violations across the entire enterprise before they occur. By providing an integrated network and desktop control solution, Vericept now brings 360-degree visibility and control of sensitive data and all insider risk for both data-in-motion and data-at-rest. The Vericept solution allows organizations to identify where sensitive information resides, track its usage, monitor for security breaches and prevent information leaks across all channels of communication, whether the document is being emailed, printed, saved, copied or downloaded to a removable drive.

Pricing and Availability

For pricing and availability regarding Vericept Desktop 360-degree, please contact Vericept Sales at 800.262.0274.

About Vericept Corporation

Vericept Corporation is the leading provider of comprehensive compliance and content control solutions. Vericept mitigates internal risk by providing enterprise-wide visibility that enables full control of the information exchanged inside and outside an organization. Vericept's patent pending Intelligent Content Control Engine(TM) dramatically reduces security risks and "insider threats" within an organization. These can include regulation compliance violations, information leaks, inappropriate Internet activity and more. Only Vericept offers comprehensive solutions that provide 360-degree visibility and control of inappropriate activity across all forms of Internet traffic, such as email, chat, P2P, and FTP. Vericept's real-time content capture enables organizations to act immediately and prevent loss of valuable information assets. Vericept's technology is protecting billions of pieces of communication and millions of workstations with over 700 customer's worldwide everyday. Vericept is a privately held company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. For additional information, please visit the company's web site at http://www.vericept.com or call 800.262.0274.

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